Boot and shoe



Oct. 12 1926.

w. H. J. WILSON BOOT AND SHOE I Filed Dec. 2. 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 1INVENTOR Oct. 12 1926.,

1,603,178 W. H. J. WILSON BOOT AND SHOE File'a Dec. 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet2 INYENT I 7% y- 7 Patented act. :12, 1926 strip. 7

Such a st-rip may be conveniently pro- WiLLIAM HENRY loser: WlILSON, orKILMAnnooK; SCOTLAND, "Assrenoaro SAXONE 'Boornm) sHoEQ 1 SHOE COMPANYLIMITED, or 'KILMAR QC scoT ANn, ABRI TiSI-I COMPANY.

Application filed December $1924, Serial no. 753,447, m in Great wasOctober 24, 1924. I I I v This invention relatesto improvements in bootsand shoes. It is well knownthat in a boot or shoehaving the, usual partsconnected together .in-the usual ways, there is 5 the possibility thatwater from without may getf'into the bootior shoe by .way of the. 1

crease which existsh-along that one'of the contours of the boot or shoealong which the: top of the welt or of the outer sole met by theadjacent lower margin of the outside a TT of the upper. It haspreviously been pro posed that an extra strip of leather should beapplied tothe outside of thecrease'to close" it.

"' providefor the. waterproof sealing of such crease, or of asmuchof-the crease as is forward of the heel or of the join't of the bootor shoe, by means and methods different from those which haye'previouslybeen suggested for the same purpose.

According to the .pre'sentinvention a de a vice for the purposedescribed, which is to be employed in the manner hereinafter eX- beforeapplication to the boot or shoe, with an upstanding marginal featheralong one side. IThis strip'is tapered toa wedge form in cross-sectionand may be an adhesive .duced by skiving one side or pmargin' of a fiatstrip and bending up a marginal part of the cross-section of the stripthrough a tween rollersor by subjecting it to any other devicewhich willbendup the feather-edged part ofthe cross-section. r 40 When the stripis in place on the boot or shoe. the flat under-face is intendedtdbeuthe welt 5 in Figure 4that is to form the I otherjwall is coated with anadhesive andf the stripis then fed into the crease, having beenpreviously coated with an adhesive up?" on that face' F of, the upturnedmarginal feather which is toicontactwith the upper, 7 anduponthatface Gwhich fisto contact with the sole. Theangular partfAfot the,cross-section of the strip is then forced well a r bedded, with the aidof an adhesive; upon the topprojecting sole-margin which may be themargin of the outer soleof anon- In order that the invention-maybe moreli clearly understood it will "now. be describedi by way of example onlyjwith'the aid of "the'accompanying drawings, in which;

It is the object of the present invention to plained,vcomprises a stripvwhich is formed strip between rollers, or by any other means so that tassumes the shape indicated in or shoe.

an angle relatively to therest of the cross section by passing thestrip,'for'example be-.

"welted boot or shoe or'it may he'the welt' itself in the case of a'weltedboot or shoe.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a shoe with thestrip applied to it; I

Figure 2 is a' cross-sectional viewfon an enlarged scale of the stripbefore the upstanding narginalflange is formed on it;

F igurey3 1s a similar cross-section of -the strip after the flange hasbeen formed;

Figure 4 across-section through the; shoe shown in u a Figure 1 when itis formed as awelted shoe; i v V Figure 5 is a View similar the case ofa non-welted shoe to Figure 4;

Figure- 6 is a sectional View similar. to

Figure :3 of a modified form ofstripran'd;

I F igure 7 isa View similar to Figu ea showing the employment of thestrip ac! cording to Figure 6. I Like reference numerals "indicate likeparts in all the figures ofthedrawings.

The strip illustrated in Figures ZfandfS' which is to be employed tomake vthe crease weatherproof i s afiat strip which is skivedj i to thecross-section shown in Figure2. The

feather-edged margin 1 isv then upturned from the body 2 of the strip bypassing the Figure 3 prior to its-application to the boot In Figure 1onlya portion of the length of the.crease aforesaid is covered by thestrip, the. latter commencing at 1 the point '8 near the heel-on theoutsideand termma'ti'ng on the opposite'side at approximately thecorresponding position. A omethodyof niaking water-proof the desiredportion'of the also that part ofthe sole l in Figure 5 or into thecrease by means of a blunt tool or a roller,-eitherof. which may betakenas be- 'ing diagrammaticallyrepresented at 16 in f V Figures 4 and5.. This operation-is so r ried out that the underface of the strip isbeddedupon the top of the Welt in Figure 4 or sole-margin 4 in Figure 5so as to cause ,it to adhere thereto.

If it is desired the body 2 of the strip may be additionally oralternatively secured to the Welt or sole-margin by stitches speciallyappropriated to that purpose. On the lefthand side of Figure a stitches6 are shown which pass through the body 2 of the strip,

the welt 5 and the sole-margin 4c and these stitches may either be thosewhich serve to stitch the Welt to the sole-margin or they maybeadditional. to those stitches. On the right-ham 1 shown as secured inplace Without the aid of stitches.

Similarly in Figure 5, on the left-hand side the body 2 of the strip issecured by stitches 6 to the sole-margin, the security affouled by thesestitches being in this example additional to that of the adhesive.

Alternatively as shown in Figure 6, the

strip may be split along its inner side to provide tWo tapered feathers,an upper or upstanding one 1 as before to be cemented to the outside ofthe upper, and a lower one 7 to be engaged, as shown in Figure 7, by theinseam stitching. V

I claim: 7 y

'1. A method of making Weatherproof at least, a portion of. the lengthof the welt crease in a Welted boot or shoe, which methi side of Figurel the strip is 1 0d consists in feeding intothe crease a strip ofleather having an upstanding marginal feather previously formed alongone slde,

forcing the angular part of the cross-section V of the strip and featherWell into the crease and securing the strip to the upper by means of anadhesive and to the Welt surface.

:2. A method of making Weatherproof at least a port-ion of the length ofthe Welt crease in a iveltedboot or shoe, Whichinethod consists infeeding into the crease a strip of leather having an upstanding marginal feather previously formed along one side, forcing the angularpart of the cross-section of the strip and feather Wellinto the crease,

securing the'strip to the upper by means of an adhesive and securing thestrip to the well; surface by stitching. I

3. A. method of making Weatherproof at least a portion of the length ofthe Welt WILLIAM HENRY JOSEPH :WiLSON.

